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USS John Finn (DDG-113) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 15 June 2011.[7] Ingalls has been a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries since its acquisition in April 2001.[8][9] Prior to the award, Ingalls had constructed 28 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the last one of which was USS William P. Lawrence.[7] On 15 February 2011, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the ship's name to be John Finn after John William Finn; the names of four other ships were also disclosed.

USS John Finn

John Finn at Pearl Harbor on 10 July 2017
History
United States
Name	John Finn
Namesake	John William Finn
Ordered	15 June 2011
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	5 November 2013[1]
Launched	28 March 2015[2]
Sponsored by	Laura Stavridis
Christened	2 May 2015[3]
Acquired	7 December 2016[4]
Commissioned	15 July 2017[5]
Homeport	San Diego
Identification	MMSI number: 368926095 Hull number: DDG-113
Motto	stand fast and fight
Honors and awards	See Awards
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,217 tons (full load)[6]
Length	513 ft (156 m)[6]
Beam	66 ft (20 m)[6]
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)[6]
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/54 caliber Mk 45 naval gun 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedo 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for use of: RIM-66M Standard Missile BGM-109 Tomahawk RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
Aircraft carried	2 × SH-60 Seahawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Double hangar and helipad

Namesake

Finn was the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II, honored for machine-gunning Japanese warplanes for over two hours during the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor despite being shot in the foot and shoulder, and suffering numerous shrapnel wounds. He retired as a lieutenant after thirty years of service and died at age 100 in 2010.[10][11][12][13][14]

Design

John Finn is the 63rd Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the first of which, Arleigh Burke, was commissioned in July 1991.[15] With 75 ships planned to be built in total, the class has the longest production run for any U.S. Navy surface combatant.[16] As an Arleigh Burke-class ship, John Finn's roles included anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, and anti-surface warfare, as well as strike operations.[6] During its long production run, the class was built in three flights: Flight I (DDG-51–DDG-71), Flight II (DDG-72–DDG-78), and Flight IIA (DDG-79–DDG-126).[8][17] John Finn will be a Flight IIA ship, and as such, will feature several improvements in terms of ballistic missile defense, an embarked air wing (two MH-60R Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System helicopters), and the inclusion of mine-detecting ability.[6] DDG-51 was also the first class of ships in the U.S. Navy to include anti-NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) warfare protection.[8]

Construction

In November 2013, the keel of John Finn was laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Jackson County, Mississippi. At the keel laying ceremony was the ex-wife of retired Admiral Stavridis, Laura, the ship's sponsor.[18] The ship was launched 28 March 2015 and was christened on 2 May 2015 by Laura Stavridis at the Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi.[19][20] On 7 December 2016, the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Pearl Harbor, the ship was delivered to the United States Navy from Ingalls Shipbuilding.[21] The precommissioning crew moved on board the ship on 28 February 2017. The vessel was commissioned on 15 July 2017 in Pearl Harbor and is homeported in San Diego.[22]

History

On 17 November 2020, John Finn successfully intercepted an ICBM using a SM-3 Block IIA missile. The target missile was launched from the test site on the Kwajalein Atoll and simulated an attack on Hawaii. This was the first time that an ICBM had been successfully intercepted by an SM-3 and the first time a US Navy ship had brought down such a missile.[23]

Deployments

• Maiden deployment December 2020 - April 2021

Awards

• Battle "E" – (2019), (2020), (2021)
• Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - (2020)

References

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Navy: 3 new ships to be named after war heroes
• DDG-113 Contract Costs
• USS John Finn on Facebook

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USS John Finn (DDG-113) — эскадренный миноносец, заказанный Huntington Ingalls Industries 15 июня 2011 для ВМС США.[1] По предложению министра военно-морских сил США Рэя Мабуса  (англ.) (рус. корабль назван «Джон Финн», в честь чиф-петти-офицера, героя Второй мировой войны, Джона Вильяма Финна  (англ.) (рус..

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